Ohio teen Anamika Veeramani won the Scripps National Spelling Bee Friday night with the word stromuhr, an instrument for measuring the flow of viscous substances.

"I'm really, really happy. This is one of the best moments of my life," the 14-year-old said after the annual spell-off.

Anamika, of North Royalton, tied for fifth place last year. Her victory makes Ohio the state to produce the most spelling bee winners with 9.

The 83rd Scripps National Spelling Bee began Thursday with 273 spellers ranging in age from 8 to 15.

Friday's final rounds began with 10 contestants, who were eliminated one by one by words such as ochidore, a shore crab, and terribilita, a term applied typically to the art of Michelangelo describing the power and grandeur of his work.

firstly, congratulations to Anamika!!'
congrats to her parents, teachers, friends and everyone who worked with her.....this is an individual contest with whole lot of team behind :).......and they all come from various ethnic groups.....i think this will be a trend for future....success will come to those who can work with different group of people....it is imminent and it will be impervative......so sooner we realize this and learn to live and work with each other (and not against) the better it will be........

Not to take anything away from this girl because it is a wonderful achievement and no doubt took alot of effort on her part., but the concept of spelling bees are rather pointless. Its pure memorization. Memorization can only get you so far in life. If one is not able to analyze and think critically, you might as well memorize how to make milkshakes at mickey ds

Not completely sure what you are trying to say. It's capitalism so if people can't compete then they are going to get left behind. And believe me, it is much tougher to be Indian than white for things like getting into top colleges so those who achieve are overcoming more than their counterparts.

Roy T. American you have misspelled several "their" as "there" several times :-)
"Of course there smart, there parents can afford Amercian Universities "
should read as
"Of course their smart, their parents can afford Amercian Universities"
Please don't embarrass yourself any more than you have.

Roy T. American you have misspelled several "their" as "there" several times :-)
"Of course there smart, there parents can afford Amercian Universities "
should read as
"Of course they are smart, their parents can afford American Universities"
Please don't embarrass yourself any more than you already have.

Then why do indian academics, doctors, businessmen go to America? Or the UK? Those countries were found and are currently dominated by white people, right? What about the nobel prize winners? There are only like 10 indian nobel prize winners, but 7 were from Western countries.. There are 829 nobel prize winners by the way.

Maybe spelling is "your playing field", but the rest (science, technology, education, etc.), are dominated by a mix of races (generally white, simply because there is a large population of white people in western countries, nothing else).

Mr Proud Indian, I am also an Indian, but, I am not sure what you are proud of. You are proud because you are in America now. Every one has their own strengths, be it spelling bee or sports or technology or something else. You better learn how to talk with respect, this is not a way to talk about fellow people from the country where you have come looking for oppurtunities. Without being in US, you will never ever be looking at these posts and writing comments.

Anamika, Congratulations on your big day. Wish you all success in your life.

I am an Indian American, and I say you are a MORON, school smarts is not everything!! Indian American need to learn from other to do everything, sports, farming, ruling. It is dumb airheads like you who are destroying image of Indian American community.

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